Control of sediment supply, palaeoceanography and morphology on late Quaternary sediment dynamics at the Galician continental slope

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 313-335

  Bender, Vera B ^a   Hanebuth, Till J J ^a   Mena, Anxo ^b   Baumann, Karl Heinz ^c   Francés, Guillermo ^b   von Dobeneck, Tilo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CURRENT VELOCITY; DEEPWATER; GALICIAN SHELF; GRAVITY CORE; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTATION; HOLOCENES; LATE QUATERNARY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MARINE PRODUCTIVITY; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PARTICLE FLUXES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT AVAILABILITY; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MORPHOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

ALLEROD; BOLLING; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CURRENT VELOCITY; DEPOSITION VELOCITY; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

GALICIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84864358218     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-012-0282-2     Document Type: Article

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